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(a)in subsection (1), for the word “rules” there shall be substituted the word “regulations”; and for the words “this subsection” there shall be substituted the words “section 111 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973”;

(b)in subsection (3), for the words “area which is a burgh or the landward area of a county” there shall be substituted the words “district or islands area”; F2. . ..

(c)after subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

“(3A)The standard penny rate product for any year of an area which is a region shall be taken to be an amount equal to the sum of the standard penny rate products for that year of the districts comprised in that region.”;

(d)in subsection (4), for the words “the last foregoing subsection” there shall be substituted the words “subsection (3) above” and the words “to county councils and town councils” shall cease to have effect;

(e)in subsection (6), for the words “burgh or of the landward area of a county” there shall be substituted the words “district or islands area”; and for the words “burgh or, as the case may be, the landward area”, in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “district or, as the case may be, islands area”;

(f)subsection (7) shall cease to have effect.

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55In section 19, in subsection (2), the words “the expression “local authority” includes a district council, and” shall cease to have effect.S

56In section 20, subsection (2) shall cease to have effect.S

57In section 21—S

(a)in subsection (1), for the words “county council” there shall be substituted the words “regional council”; for the words “the county”, where they first occur, there shall be substituted the words “the region”; for the words “the expenditure” there shall be substituted the words “the relevant local expenditure”; and for the words from “relevant” onwards there shall be substituted the words “sum of the relevant local expenditures for that year of the regional council and the councils of each district in the region”,

(b)subsection (2) shall cease to have effect;

(c)for subsection (3) there shall be substituted the following subsection:—

“(3)In this section “relevant local expenditure” has the same meaning as in paragraph 5 of Part II of Schedule 1 to the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966.”

58In section 26(2), in the definition of “local authority”, for the words from “county” onwards there shall be substituted the words “regional, islands or district council”.S

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